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Webs.comLast Junior Whaler Cardwegrychttps://www.kevindineencardmuseum.com/apps/blog/show/8361052
<p>It has been quite a while since I have found a Kevin Dineen card from my want list. &#160;Yes, I have gotten the Upper Deck French Buy-Back and autograph from In the Game's Decades 1980s sets, which came out this year. &#160;I mean a card that was issued long ago that has been a long time resident on the want list. &#160;In any event, I finally crossed another card off the want list:</p><p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.kevindineencardmuseum.com/photos/1990-91/90917ElevenJuniorWhalersKD.jpg">http://www.kevindineencardmuseum.com/photos/1990-91/90917ElevenJuniorWhalersKD.jpg</a></p><p>(not sure why I can't just insert the image. &#160;Oh well.)</p><p>It's nice to get this card off the list. &#160;Now only four to go (plus whatever comes out next week in Dominion)</p>Sun, 04 Sep 2011 23:15:00 +0000https://www.kevindineencardmuseum.com/apps/blog/show/8361052Both Stadium Club First Day Issues on One Daywegrychttps://www.kevindineencardmuseum.com/apps/blog/show/3268496
<p>In the years that I have collected Kevin Dineen cards (since the summer of 2006, I think), I had never come across the 1993-94 Stadium Club First Day Issue cards of Kevin Dineen.&#160; That includes the U.S. version and the Canadian version.&#160; And last week, both of those cards popped up on eBay with a Buy It Now price.&#160; Needless to say, I didn't waste any time hitting the BIN.&#160; Here they are</p><p><br/></p><p><img src="http://www.kevindineencardmuseum.com//photos/1993-94/9394StadiumClubFirstDayIssueOPCKD_FRONTandBACK.jpg"/></p><p><img src="http://www.kevindineencardmuseum.com//photos/1993-94/9394StadiumClubFirstDayIssueKD_FRONTandBACK.jpg"/></p><p>There isn't much of a difference between the cards.&#160; The only thing I can see different (besides the centering on the back) is the "PTD IN U.S.A." in small letters on the back of the OPC card.&#160; After looking for both these cards, it was amazing to see them put on eBay on the same day.<br/></p>Sat, 27 Mar 2010 22:11:00 +0000https://www.kevindineencardmuseum.com/apps/blog/show/3268496Hey, A New Card!wegrychttps://www.kevindineencardmuseum.com/apps/blog/show/3017738
<p>Finally, a new card!&#160; The 1991-92 Swedish Semic Sticker:<br/></p><p><br/></p><p><img src="http://www.kevindineencardmuseum.com//photos/1991-92/9192SwedishSemicMilkyWayFRONTandBACKKD.jpg"/></p><p><br/></p><p>A big thank you to Jeff B. for trading me this card (whose front and back is pictured above)!&#160; Jeff is another Kevin Dineen fan, and knows a dealer who can obtain European hockey cards.&#160; Jeff got this card for me, and traded it to me for my extra Pro Set Award Winners Kevin Dineen.&#160; A steep price to be sure, but trading a double for a Dineen card I don't have generally seems like a good deal to me.&#160; Especially if it help out a fellow Kevin Dineen collector.<br/></p><p><br/></p><p>In case you think this card already was in the Museum, well, you are right.&#160; Kinda.&#160; The Finnish version was also in the museum:</p><p><br/></p><p><img src="http://www.kevindineencardmuseum.com//photos/1991-92/9192FinnishSemicMarabouFRONTandBACKKD.jpg"/></p><p><br/></p><p>There is also rumored to be a blank backed version (a rumor I have heard from two different sources), but I've never seen it.&#160; If anyone finds one, you know that I would be very interested.</p><p><br/></p><p>In other news, a Parkhurst Dineen/Liut autograph went for an insane price of $280 on eBay:</p><p><br/></p><p>http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&amp;item=260547532239&amp;ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT</p><p><br/></p><p>All I can say is wow.&#160; I wonder if the winning collector is a Dineen, Liut, and/or Whaler collector.<br/></p>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 01:58:00 +0000https://www.kevindineencardmuseum.com/apps/blog/show/3017738OK, I Give Up (not on the collection, but one card)wegrychttps://www.kevindineencardmuseum.com/apps/blog/show/2086675
<div align="center"><img src="http://www.kevindineencardmuseum.com//photos/2006-07/0607ParkhurstSalutetoCaptains227REDEMPTION_KD.jpg"/></div><div align="center"><br/></div><div align="left">I've had this redemption chit for quite a while now, but I haven't put in the museum since I was hoping to obtain the actual card.&#160; But Upper Deck (a while ago now) stated that the card would never be produced (and sent me a Eric Staal autograph instead).&#160; Thus, it's time to stop my denial and accept that this card is the closest we can get to this unproduced card.&#160; I know, I know, it's quite disappointing (especially for people on eBay paying $100+ for the redemption; lucky for me I paid less than $20 shortly after the set came out), but life at the Kevin Dineen Card Museum must go on.&#160; Maybe a new printing plate will make us all feel better:</div><div align="left"><br/></div><div align="center"><img src="http://www.kevindineencardmuseum.com//photos/Printing-Plates/9899PacificDynagonPlateALT.jpg"/><br/></div>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:49:00 +0000https://www.kevindineencardmuseum.com/apps/blog/show/2086675A New Post But Not Many More Cardswegrychttps://www.kevindineencardmuseum.com/apps/blog/show/1661928
<p><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="3">It has been a while since I've posted a new entry, and that is because there haven't been many additions to the collection the past few months.&#160; I did post a new graded card today:</font></p><p><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="3"><br/></font></p><p><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="3"><img src="http://www.kevindineencardmuseum.com//photos/-Graded-Cards/8687OPCStickersKDineenMBossyPSA8.jpg"/><br/></font></p><p><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="3"><br/></font></p><p><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="3">NM-MT normally isn't a great grade, but it's hard to imagine a lot ofgraded OPC stickers are out there.&#160; Also, another 1991-92 Pro Set Award Winners card came up on eBay which I snatched up.&#160; Still, not much new.</font></p><p><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="3"><br/></font></p><p><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="3">The site does look different, as Webs.com started using a "Gallery" image posting system.&#160; I must say I think it's a pretty big improvement, and the site is better because of it.</font></p><p><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="3">In any event, I'm still on the lookout for more Kevin Dineen cards that I don't have (or even some that I do have).&#160; I suppose that it's gotten to a point that I have most of his cards, that finding new ones will get harder and harder.&#160; That's a good thing, I suppose, but I'd love to find some new cards (especially those two team issued cards I missedout on last January).</font></p><p><font color="#000000" face="Arial">&#160;</font><br/></p>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 19:54:00 +0000https://www.kevindineencardmuseum.com/apps/blog/show/1661928Another Team Set Card Obtained and a 80s Gemwegrychttps://www.kevindineencardmuseum.com/apps/blog/show/1661902
Following up on the last post, team sets do come up every so often on eBay.&nbsp; Case in point, the 1997-98 Hurricanes Team Set came up for sale and had one of the Final Ten KD cards I need.&nbsp; Here it is:<br><br><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://www.kevindineencardmuseum.com/1997-98/9798HurricanesTeamIssueKD.JPG" border="0"><br><br><div style="text-align: left;">Something happened to the set before it got to me; the outer bubble envelope and even inner cardboard envelope was gashed, and apparantly it was originally delivered to the wrong address.&nbsp; So the card is a little bent but not creased.&nbsp; Not ideal, but not a disaster either.<br><br>I also picked up the third PSA 10 card in the museum.&nbsp; It's a copy of the 1988-89 O-Pee-Chee card:<br><br><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://www.kevindineencardmuseum.com/Graded%20Cards/8889OPCKDineenPSA10.JPG" border="0"><br><br><div style="text-align: left;">The set design for the 1988-89 O-Pee-Chee/Topps is quite strange.&nbsp; Somehow a push pin set shallowly is pinning an upward tilted nameplate.&nbsp; Very strange.<br></div></div></div></div>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:43:13 +0000https://www.kevindineencardmuseum.com/apps/blog/show/1661902A Toughie Obtained, and a Toughie Lostwegrychttps://www.kevindineencardmuseum.com/apps/blog/show/1661903
One day you are just sifting through your eBay saved searches, not expecting anything special, but there, skulking about the links, is a white whale:<br><br><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://www.kevindineencardmuseum.com/1999-00/9900PacificPremiereDateKD35_46.jpg" border="0"><br><br><div style="text-align: left;">I was wondering if I would even see a copy of this card, given a paltry print run of 46.&nbsp; I knew most of these cards must be in card show dealer boxes, or sitting on a shelf at a card store, the dealer unknowing that a Kevin Dineen card nut was looking intently for this card through the ether of the internet. &nbsp; It was very satisfying to snag it for a $2.99 BIN.&nbsp; (Side note: I also picked up a 2001 Bowman Autographs Dustin McGowan baseball card from the same dealer for $3.99.&nbsp; If McGowan lives up to his potential [and gets past his current injury] I think this purchase could be a great steal).<br><br>As big of a victory as it was to pick up the Pacific Premiere date card, I did lose out on two Flyers team set cards.&nbsp; One is the want-listed 1993-94 Flyers J.C. Penney card, and the other was a heretofore unknown 1995-96 Flyers Ocean Spray team set card.&nbsp; I lost both auctions for the complete sets of cards.&nbsp; The first went for around $30 (my snipe was not high enough), and the second for under $20 (I forgot to set a snipe!).&nbsp; Team set cards do seem to pop up every so often, so hopefully I'll get another chance.<br></div></div>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:11:53 +0000https://www.kevindineencardmuseum.com/apps/blog/show/1661903Slowly But Surely.....wegrychttps://www.kevindineencardmuseum.com/apps/blog/show/1661904
Three of my biggest wants (PSA 10 RC, the Liut/Dineen dual auto, and the Pro Set Award winners) have been obtained this year.&nbsp; The remaining toughies seem to me to be the 99-00 Pacific Premiere Date and the Stadium Club First Day Issue (especially the OPC version).&nbsp; There are others that I feel must be out there but just don't come to market often, like this one:<br><br><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://www.kevindineencardmuseum.com/1997-98/9798KatchSilverKD.jpg" border="0"><br><br><div style="text-align: left;">That's the 1997-98 Katch Silver parallel.&nbsp; So, to my knowledge, all the KD Katch coins have been obtained for the museum.&nbsp; Hooray!&nbsp; The complete collection is coming together, slowly but surely.&nbsp; Now if I could only track down that 98-99 Pacific Red....<br></div></div>Sun, 22 Jun 2008 05:42:59 +0000https://www.kevindineencardmuseum.com/apps/blog/show/1661904Top Two Wants Obtained!wegrychttps://www.kevindineencardmuseum.com/apps/blog/show/1661905
First, I finally got the high grade Kevin Dineen rookie I've been seeking:<br><img src="http://www.kevindineencardmuseum.com/Graded%20Cards/8586OPCKDineenPSA10.JPG" border="0"><br>One hadn't popped up on eBay for a long time (at least a year), so I was pretty exiting when this one arrived. <br><br>When I first started collecting Mr. Dineen, I thought one card would be unattainable:&nbsp; the 1991-92 Pro Set NHL Sponser Awards card.&nbsp; As I understand it, these cards were only given to attendees to the NHL awards in 1991.&nbsp; Thus, most of these guys are not hocking cards on the 'Bay.&nbsp; And if they are, how would they know there is a crazy Kevin Dineen out there who would pay well over book for this rarity?&nbsp; And for over a year, I didn't see it.&nbsp; Finally, I started searching for the set as opposed to just the Dineen.&nbsp; Since then, three of these sets have come on eBay, going for over $175, and the first going for over $250.&nbsp; I lost all 3 auctions.&nbsp; But the last auction was won by someone who wanted just the Brett Hull, and we were able to make a deal.&nbsp; So, without further ado....<br><img src="http://www.kevindineencardmuseum.com/1991-92/9192ProSetAwardWinnersKD.JPG" border="0"><br>So it's not much to look at (like all the Pro Set cards), and is almost the same as the regular issue from that year, but it took a long time to find it, and I am estatic to finally have it in my collection (so estatic that I will use run-on sentences to express my happiness).<br>Sun, 18 May 2008 23:46:44 +0000https://www.kevindineencardmuseum.com/apps/blog/show/1661905Sheets from Finlandwegrychttps://www.kevindineencardmuseum.com/apps/blog/show/1661906
The newest additions to the collection come from Finland.&nbsp; A nice fellow named Ilkka emailed me out of the blue saying he had a couple of Flyers sheets with Kevin Dineen that I may not have.&nbsp; Sure enough, they were the elusive 1993-94 Flyers Lineup Sheets:<br><br><img src="http://www.kevindineencardmuseum.com/1993-94/9394FlyersSheetsKD10.JPG" border="0"><br><img src="http://www.kevindineencardmuseum.com/1993-94/9394FlyersSheetsKD11.JPG" border="0">Yes, they are huge.&nbsp; It was great to have someone just email me out of the blue with cards that I need.&nbsp; And as I recall, a couple of other lineup sheets I received were from Finland.&nbsp; It's interested that these regional cards ended up in Finland.&nbsp; Perhaps collectors there are more interested in these team-set type cards.<br>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 01:09:02 +0000https://www.kevindineencardmuseum.com/apps/blog/show/1661906